Are Rural Residents’ Mental Health Influenced by the New Countryside Construction? An Investigation in Chongqing, China
Autori:
Yin PAN, Tiejun ZHOU, Haibin ZHANG, Xiaoyu DU
Cod: ISSN: 1583-3410 (print), ISSN: 1584-5397 (electronic)
Dimensiuni: pp. 135-149
How to cite this article:Pan, Y., Zhou, T., Zhang, H., Du, X. (2015). Are Rural Residents’ Mental Health Influenced by the New Countryside Construction? An Investigation in Chongqing, China. Revista de Cercetare si Interventie Sociala, 51, 135-149. |
Abstract:
To improve the living environment in rural areas, the Chinese government has
mapped out an important strategy, “New Countryside Construction” (NCC). The
purpose of this study is to reveal the effect of NCC implementation on the rural
residents’ mental health, and the relationship between them. In this study, from
Apr. 5 to Aug. 12, 2015, rural residents from 10 villages in Chongqing, a metropolis
in southwest China, were chosen for questionnaires and interviews. The
questionnaire was designed to cover two sets of questions: one concerned with the
mental health scale (Kessler 6) and the other on the construction conditions in the
rural areas. Afterward, the statistical software SPSS was employed to analyze the
collected data. Based on the data analysis, two results were generalized. First,
NCC significantly improved the mental health of the rural residents. Second,
factors closely related to the NCC, such as infrastructure, housing satisfaction,
and time spent from the newly built countryside to the city significantly influenced
the mental status of the rural residents, whereas the influence of the road conditions
was not significant. The NCC plays a positive role in improving the
mental health of the rural residents. Thus, the Chinese government should exert
greater efforts to encourage and promote NCC to safeguard social fairness and
justice to improve rural residents’ mental health.
Keywords:
mental health, new countryside construction, rural residents, urbanization, Kessler 6.
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